What's your favourite horror movie?

[Beelzie]

Do you prefer classic horror or modern horror?

[GoldenAxer]

Ravenous, VVitch, Hereditary (sorta), Midsommar, Day of the Dead, Braindead, Re-Animator, Se7en, Silence of the Lambs, Alien, Apostle (2018), The Fly (1986), eXistenZ, The Possessor, Cheap Thrills, The Collector/Collection (like more than Saw), The Head Hunter, Mandy (2018), Beyond the Black Rainbow (boring but it gave me weird dreams), Cosmopolis (horror film in my book and gave me weird dreams/thoughts), Jughead, etc.

I don't know if I care about the distinction between modern and classic. One thing is that I don't care for the overly paranormal or supernatural types like Exorcist or The Amityville Horror. I'm more into, say, zombies and aliens and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I can't understand the rules to know how much to worry about or not for the characters when there are demons and ghosts and such involved. It starts to feel like the writers are just inventing the rules to me as they go along.

[GoldenAxer]

I'm also more into "disturbing" than "scary". I never found a single horror film scary even as a little kid. But I found many disturbing, like Alien (possibly my all-time favorite) with its underlying Giger theme of rape and human reproduction and violation of human bodies.

[Beelzie]

Same. Its hard to find a good horror movie that will actually give you scares so I just stick to ones that are disturbing

[GoldenAxer]

Same. I like feeling disturbed a bit. It's kind of a lingering sense that makes me question things: food for thought! I don't like the "torture porn" ones so much though like Hostel. Well, it's not that they're too disturbing for me so much as boring to me. I can't get enough into the characters and story to be disturbed in the first place. I do sorta like Martyrs though. That one is extremely violent and maybe approaching what some people might call "torture porn" but I found the acting and storytelling interesting enough to find it disturbing and not just cheesy.

[GoldenAxer]

This is one of the newer ones I really love for some bizarre reason. It's a really weird movie but I kept coming back to it. I've watched it three times already (though not back-to-back). It's sorta Lovecraftian although not quite:
https://youtu.be/J1JdWOqc9Q8

[GoldenAxer]

I also love distant historical/period films and sci-fi and so when that overlaps with horror, there's a very good chance I will like it (VVitch, e. g.)

[Beelzie]

Yeah I'm not a big fan of "torture porn" scenes either. They just bore me, kinda take me out of the movie, make me lose interest. Not a huge fan of gore either but I'll watch gory horror. I'm all in for violent horror and disturbing torture scenes. And The VVitch, I love. Definitely one of my top 3

[Aethereal]

By favourite horror, do you mean a movie I would rewatch over and over, or a horror that scared me good?

For me a movie is only horror if the source of the horror cannot be defeated by a well-placed shot to the head. Thus slasher movies aren't horror to me.

That being said, the two horror movies that tie for my favourite are: "The Ring" and "The Grudge".

[TrueConfection]

I can't watch horror movies anymore, but I liked the Poltergeist series. The scariest of all for me was Evil Dead II.

[Mr7digits]

The saw series, wrong turn, gravedancers and a not so very well known French movie called martyrs. I have a lot of favorites that I can't think of off the top of my head at the moment, but for found footage, grave encounters is one that comes to mind.

[Madhatter920]

I like the old style of building suspense, as opposed to the modern trend of jumpscares. However, the old horror movies had absolutely terrible acting.

[exitseven]

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers was really scary to me.
There was a series on TV called The Strain that was also scary.

[TrueConfection]

I'll never forget the ending of that movie.

[exitseven]

@TrueConfection Yes, that is what scared the crap out of me.

[Kaneki05]

Silent Hill. Nothing alike the games but 100% a perfect film within it's own right.
We don't talk about the 2nd film though.

[VDrago14]

Hellraiser has always been a personal favorite of mine.

That said I love horror of all eras, doesn't matter the decade, there's always good stuff

[Likes2drive]

Classic horror and those signs are the ones usually on the back of a tractor trailer

[MysticDevice]

Outpost
The Objective
Quarantine
28 weeks later

[YesICan]

Halloween, Friday the 13th, Scream, Texas Chainsaw massacre, The Conjuring, Witch...

[DonkeyDan]

Really I like all kinds of horror.

[joeldalton]

The exorcist is always on the top of my list.

[Cherry234]

The Shining

[Blackcupcake]

I hated that one!😭😂😂

[Cherry234]

@Blackcupcake Really why?

[Blackcupcake]

hahah well I don’t really remember the plot thaat well, but I remember the build up being suuuper slow so it was really really boring😂😭

[Cherry234]

@Blackcupcake oh ok. I thought the buildup was going at a reasonable pace

[Blackcupcake]

honestly maybe it was… I watched it ages ago so I might have to rewatch it and form an upgraded opinion hahaha

[KevnHanma]

Night of the giving head

[Pterodon]

The Exorcist

[dudewithnoname]

Halloween

[Grubhub]

They suck

[B4852]

Probably Jaws.